Crenshaw

Crenshaw is a neighborhood in south Los Angeles, California. Crenshaw is centered on Crenshaw Boulevard and Buckingham Road, and it borders Baldwin Village. Crenshaw is a largely residential neighborhood of single-story houses, bungalows, and low-rise condominiums and apartments, also including commercial buildings. After the repeal of segregation laws, a large Japanese community developed, and the traces of their settlement can still be seen along Coliseum Street. African-Americans started settling in the district in the mid-1960s, and by the early 1970s were the majority. Crenshaw suffered significant damage during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake, but it rebounded in the late 2000s with the help of redevelopment. During the 2010s, many middle and lower-class blacks and Hispanics migrated to cities in the rural "Inland Empire" as well as to cities in the Antelope Valley as a form of gentrification. In 2006, Crenshaw had a population of 27,600 people, with 61.4% being African-American, 26.3% Hispanic, 4.8% white, 3.1% Asian, 2.9% multiracial, and 1.4% other.